Sausage-machine



110.2815; PATENTED OCT. 12, 1842.

J. H. Poms. SAUSAGE MACHINE.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. frorrs, 0F FAYETTE, MrssoURL;

SAUSAGE-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 2,815, dated October 12, 1842..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. Form, of Fayette, in the county of Howard and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cutting Sausage-Meat and for other Purposes, which is described as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a view of the revolving c1rcular disk with its cutters, pins, and shaft and one of the cheeks B between which it revolves. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the'dnner face of the opposite cheek B feeding hopper or opening therein, dovetailed slides and parallel knives and bed piece or foundation and ends of the box in which the disk revolves and the discharging aperture in the bed.

The foundation or bed piece A is made of any convenient length, breadth and thickness having four mortises therem near its four corners to receive the four tenons on the lower edges of the cheeks B B grooves to admit the ends Q, and an oblong mortise R in the center through which the article cut is discharged.

The cheeksB B are in width about two thirds the length of the bed Ain thickness about equal to one third the width of the bed and of any convenient height and rounded or semicircular on the upper ends having a stout tenon near each lower corner passing through its corresponding mortise in the bed.

The check lettered B is provided with a fixed metallic box N in the center having a circular cavity in the center in which the inner end of the axle P of the disk H revolves. Likewise with an inclined opening Gr near the center covered with a hopper G on the outside through which the machine is fed with the article to be out. Also with four sets of parallel triangular knives set in four dovetailed slides inserted into dovetailedmortises radiating from the center of the cheek to the circumference of a circle inscribed around the aforesaid center. The aforesaid dovetailed slides widen gradually from their inner to their outer ends and the knives inserted therein are made to correspond therewith by being increased in length as they leave the center. These knives are to perform part of the cutting. Vertical parallel grooves are made in thischeek near the outer edges thereof into which the end pieces Q, are inserted forming the ends of shoulders on the tenons will come under the bed A leaving a space in the mortise behind the tenons into which wedges are inserted for securing the aforesaid cheek B firmly against the ends Q forming the box.

The space bet Zen the cheeks constituting the box and in which the disk H revolves is a little wider than the thickness of the disk. The cheek B is perforated in the center with a round aperture on a horizontal line with the aforesaid box N of the opposite cheek to receive the axle of the disk which projects beyond the outside of said cheek far enough to receive a crank by which it is turned. Fig. 2 represents the disk placed against the inner face of the smooth cheek.

The disk D is slightly convex on its side next the cheek B and concave on the side next the armed side of the cheek B on which concave side it is furnished with knives and pins. Its diameter is less than the diameter of the curved parts of the cheeks. Around its center and within a small concentric circle are formed four wedge shaped projections S having rhomboidal knives K fastened on the thickest parts of the aforesaid projections. The cutting edge of each knife extends from the corner of the square part of the shaft at an angle of about 50 degrees therewith. These knives are for cutting the meat around the center and as it enters the box from the hopper. In the space between these knives and the circumference of the disk are arranged four or more concentric circles of pins or projections for carrying around the pieces 0 the meat or other article to be cut amongst the parallel triangular knives F and bringing it in contact therewith being so arranged as to pass between the said knives without touching them.

The meat in pieces is fed through the hopper G and inclined aperture G in the cheek B where it is met by the oblique or rhomboidal knives which pass over the opening G of the hopper and by them cut into smaller pieces which are carried around by the concentric' rows of eafiveying' pins of the revolving disk amongst the parallel triangular stationary knives F of the cheek B by which the pieces of meat are cut up to the required degree of fineness. It then d; scends through the discharging aperture R in the foundation A to a receiver placed below it. H I V WVhat I claim as my invention and which ,I desire to secure by Letters Patent is The eambmaaen of the rhdmboi dal knives 7K fixed an the upper or outr'eags of the wedge shaped projections S at the center of t e dofic ai rvdlv'ing disk H for Ciiftifig the meat into small pieces as it enters the machine from the hopper G in combination with the several series of fixed triangular lzijiiifes F arranged in the dovetailed slides L of the cheek B for cuttinfiner particles in the manner erein set forth.

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